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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 97 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_106.jpg |
| Transcript | The Thirty Tears* l\\ Three months later Wallenstein, breaking up from Bohemia, directed his whole force upon Nuremberg, which thus became the chief scene in that drama immortalised by Schiller in his trilogy of plays. For no sooner did Gustavus hear that Wallenstein with Imperial army was marching against her than, mindful of his pledge and eager not to sacrifice so valued an ally, he summoned all his reinforcements and set out to the relief of Nuremberg. Thus beneath her walls the Prote * H • King and the inscrutable Catholic general were to be brought face to face at last. The citi/ had for some time past been anxiously increasing their fortifications, storing provisions, and enlisting soldiers. Now, between dune 21 at and July 6th, under the direction of Hans Olph, the Swedish engineer, and with the aid of Gustavus* army, an entirely new ring of earthworks was constructed enclosing the suburbs. Men and women, soldiers, burghers and peasants, laboured night and day at these entrenchments, which were provided with many small bastions and redoubts, and defended by over 300 cannon. Round them was dug a moat eight feet deep and twelve feet wide. Very few traces of these >ns, which SJI removed soon after 1806, can be found to-dav. In the Swedish camp lay some 20,000 veterans, for whom i4,cco pounds of bn • supplied per diem. Within the city was a population of at least 65,000, of whom 8000 were fighting men, 3000 of these being armed citizens. Such were the resources with which Gustavus hoped to do battle with Wallenstein's gigantic army of 6o,coo men and i 3,000 horse. His preparations were not yet complete when Wallenstein appeared, •July 1, at Schwabach. Had he consulted the wishes of Gustavus or listened to t: iector of Bavaria, Wal!en>tein would | the Swedes at once. But, though superior in numbers, he would o 97 |